76 Billion Pills, 6 Companies And An Opioid Trial For The Ages - 1A

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76 Billion Pills, 6 Companies And An Opioid Trial For The Ages

in communities where opioid pills are distributed frequently and in large quantities. This is especially true in West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia.Newly unsealed documents in a landmark lawsuit Tuesday in Cleveland show the pressure within drug companies to sell opioids despite numerous red flags during the height of the epidemic.

The release of the exhibits — sworn depositions of executives, internal corporate emails and experts’ reports — also reveals the ignored concerns of some employees about the huge volume of pain pills streaming across the nation. In one exhibit, emails show that a Purdue Pharma executive received an order from a distributor for 115,200 oxycodone pills, which was nearly twice as large as that distributor’s average order over the previous three months. The order came in at 4:15 p.m., according to the emails sent in October 2009.In another of the exhibits, Nathan J.

 

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